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Lifts the lid on an artistic ferment which has defied every known law of the music business This outstanding biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance band and record-session guitarist when, in the early 1960s, he began playing an uncompromisingly abstract form of music. Today his anti-idiom of “Free Improvisation” has become the lingua franca of the “avant” scene, with Pat Metheny, John Zorn, David Sylvian and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore among his admirers. Получить ссылку |
Derek Acorah: Extreme Psychic
Автор: Derek Acorah
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The UK's number one TV psychic is back as you've never seen him before. Derek shares stories of his scariest, most bloodcurdling encounters with the other side.From possession by demons, violent spirits that have thrown him bodily across the room and encounters with dead serial killers, to ghosts that have made him fear for his very life, here is a collection of shocking experiences that have made Derek stare into the darkest places of the spirit world.Warning: this is not for the faint-hearted. Read it, if you dare.
Derek Acorah’s Amazing Psychic Stories
Автор: Derek Acorah
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Amazing stories of psychic encounters by TV's favourite psychic, Derek Acorah.The star of LIVINGtv’s ‘Ghost Towns’ shares incredible real-life tales of dramatic rescues, dream visitations and near-death experiences from his own life and the lives of many of the people he has worked with.The book includes:• Why hauntings occur, and why certain locations are ‘chosen’ by the ghost.• Miraculous survival stories which defy explanation, including remarkable medical recoveries.• Near-death experiences, and an answer to the question ‘what is it really like to die?’• Spirit visitations – how and why spirits can visit earth, and how psychic medium communication works.• Real-life dramas and what happened when those from the afterlife intervened.• What these encounters with the spirit world mean, and how they prove the existence of life after death.
Derek Acorah’s Ghost Towns
Автор: Derek Acorah
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‘Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns’ is a collection of stories to tie-in with the SKY LIVING tv series starring Britain's best-loved medium Derek Acorah. Ghost Towns sees Derek take to the road to meet the people of Britain.Derek Acorah is coming to a town near you. This fascinating TV tie-in follows Derek’s adventures up and down the country. At the heart of his show is the Ghost Truck, which moves from town to town seeking new ghostly experiences. In each episode, the team investigates four mysteries in a haunted town, which involves painstaking night vigils, midnight seances and contact with locals who have passed over to and now reside in the spirit world.His adventures include:• Bristol – why do the Odeon usherettes refuse to clean screen 3 alone?• Royston – who is the drunken spirit who haunts an old police station?Derek also knocks on the doors of unsuspecting members of the public to deliver psychic messages – will his Doorstep Divination always be welcome? Can he convince even the most hardened sceptics?
Ghost Hunting with Derek Acorah
Автор: Derek Acorah
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The UK's number one TV psychic offers a fascinating and compelling guide to ghost hunting. With tips and hints on tools, locations, and types of spirit activity a budding ghost hunter might encounter, Acorah provides a remarkable guide with plenty of brilliant and absorbing stories of his own encounters.Derek Acorah, well-known from the television programme «Most Haunted,» has written a guide to ghosts that will fulfil your every ghost-related desire! Whether you want to find your very own ghost, learn more about how Derek does it, or just share more of Derek's exciting experiences with the spirit world, Ghost Hunting With Derek Acorah is sure to satisfy you!Along with numerous entertaining and occasionally frightening true-life accounts of Derek's own experiences with ghosts, Ghost Hunting With Derek Acorah will give you intriguing insights into Derek's world and the world of the spirits.The book contains:– Information of different types of ghost you may encounter, such as residual energy, anniversary ghosts, poltergeists and the spirit people.– Hints on how to prepare and what tools to use.– Where to go to find ghosts, with examples of some of the best places to find a ghost in the UK such as Chingle Hall, Goosnargh, Rufford Old Hall, Ormskirk, Lancs, Speke Hall, Liverpool, and Smithills Hall, Bolton, Lancashire.– Information on which ghosts you might encounter and their history.
The Ice: A gripping thriller for our times from the Bailey’s shortlisted author of The Bees
Автор: Laline Paull
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An electrifying story of friendship, power and betrayal by the bestselling, Baileys-prize shortlisted author of The Bees.It's the day after tomorrow and the Arctic sea ice has melted. While global business carves up the new frontier, cruise ships race each other to ever-rarer wildlife sightings. The passengers of the Vanir have come seeking a polar bear. What they find is even more astonishing: a dead body.It is Tom Harding, lost in an accident three years ago and now revealed by the melting ice of Midgard glacier. Tom had come to Midgard to help launch the new venture of his best friend of thirty years, Sean Cawson, a man whose business relies on discretion and powerful connections – and who was the last person to see him alive.Their friendship had been forged by a shared obsession with Arctic exploration. And although Tom's need to save the world often clashed with Sean's desire to conquer it, Sean has always believed that underneath it all, they shared the same goals.But as the inquest into Tom's death begins, the choices made by both men – in love and in life – are put on the stand. And when cracks appear in the foundations of Sean's glamorous world, he is forced to question what price he has really paid for a seat at the establishment's table.Just how deep do the lies go?
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